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Seasons & Generations North Twin Cities Edition • September, 2013
What this is ???• Photography by Ann Kittelsen
Meet the Blanding’s Turtle
Where Did Summer Go?
Playing Childish Car Games
tbd
• FREE EDITION •
FROM THE PUBLISHER
IN THIS ISSUE Stupid should hurt. And I can now verify from
personal experience that it does.
Days of September - pg. 5
The Blanding’s Turtle - pg. 9
But, I think my pride is hurt more than my face.
Cooking with Bacon (Karen) - pg. 11
New Car Game - pg. 12 In my glee of actually having summer arrive in
Dentis Dog - pg. 14 Minnesota this year, I’ve been much more
New Shoes for School - pg. 16 physically active the past few months; gardening,
Take A Break - pg. 22 walking the dog nightly, and even doing some Before stupid happens
stretching exercises while watching the evening news.
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EASY LEAF CRAFTS - to do with the grand kids
Leaf Coasters You’ll need contact place flowers or even cat tails in them. stamp it has left. The more diverse
paper and colorful leaves. Cut the You can also fill with pine cones your choice of leaves, the more
contact paper into coaster-sized circles beautiful the end result.
or squares – peel the backing off one Leaf Rubbings You’ll need crayons
of the circles and arrange a few leaves or chalk, paper and plenty of leaves Leaf Magnets In addition to the
– or just one in the center onto the sticky in different sizes and shapes. Make usual supplies, like glue and scis-
side. Then remove the backing from the sure leaves sors, you’ll also need sheets of craft
other circle and press firmly onto the are not too foam and magnets or magnetic
leaves to seal them between the two dry and won’t sheets/tape. Trace an outline of a
sheets of contact paper. Trim the edges crack with leaf on a sheet of craft foam. Cut
the rubbing.
with pinking shears for some stunning out the foam outline and then glue
Place the
fall coasters. With this technique you the leaf onto it. All that is left to do is
paper over
can also make placemats. glue the magnet on the back.
the leaf and rub with the wide side of
crayon or chalk. Beautiful if framed,
Fall Wreath Using a paper plate cut out or hanging on the refrigerator. Fall Mobile In addition to leaves,
the center. Next, glue leaves around the you’ll need two small branches of equal
rim for a colorful fall wreath. Leaf Prints For this project, you’ll length and size per mobile. Tie the two
need paints and brushes, construc- branches together at the middle so they
Fall Bouquet For this project you’ll need tion paper and scrap paper. Brush form a cross. Use a glue gun to secure
craft sticks and glue – if you have a glue paint onto a leaf, place the painted the binding if necessary. Punch holes
gun, so much the better. Also, you’ll side down on construction paper. through the top of leaves. Then tie them
need flower pots – empty tin cans will Place the scrap paper over it, gently with string and attach to your mobile.
also do nicely. Glue leaves to the craft rub the leaf, then remove the paper You can also tie some leaves at the
sticks. Then, decorate flower pots and and peel off the leave to see the stems for more variety.
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DAYS OF SEPTEMBER
National Play-Doh Day • Sept. 16th else, however, you will see a little bit more John was a nurseryman who started out
or a little bit less than 12 hours of daylight. planting trees in western New York and
Invented in the 1950s, it has Pennsylvania. He was a deeply religious
entertained millions of us. The daylight hours are dwindling and will person and he was known to preach
continue to do so until we reach the Winter during his travels.
Some say the Solstice, the shortest day of the year and
story of the the start of winter. According to legend, Johny Appleseed
PLAY-DOH led a simple life and wanted little. He
modeling Hopefully us Minnesotan’s won’t have a rarely accepted money and often do-
compound begins in 1956 when scientists repeat of last winter, which didn’t seem to nated any money he received.
at Rainbow Crafts, a Cincinnati soap and leave us until May!
cleaning compound company, stumbled Celebrate today with fresh apples for
upon a new use for the unique dough-like Johnny Appleseed Day • Sept. 26th snacks, and some applesauce or apple
cleaning product. pie for dessert.
John Chapman was among the Ameri-
The company realized this product’s can settlers who were captivated by the Autumn’s Glow
potential as a child’s modeling compound; movement west across There is something
and thus, the original, reusable PLAY-DOH the continent. about autumn
compound was born.” That brings out such earthiness
As he travelled west, he Gold leaves adorn
Autumn Equinox • September 22 planted apple trees along
bushes and trees
The Autumn equinox signals the beginning the way, and sold trees
of Fall. It is the point where there is exactly to settlers. With every apple tree that Like an artist
12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of dark- was planted, the legend grew and he with a brilliant brush
ness at the equator. If you live anywhere became known as Johnny Appleseed. ---Marilyn Lott
FAITH, FAMILY AND FOOD
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bind—and sometimes strangle—the younger, or the younger members trying
and laughter of our most sacred family
generations. to find their individual identities in the
stories.
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THE BLANDING’S TURTLE - up close
The cold spring of 2013 In addition, the sustainability of this late- Females spend much of their time bask-
maturing species relies on adults living ing in the sun to aid in the development
delayed nesting activity
long lives (they can live over 70 years) of their eggs, then prior to laying their
and likely will result in and for young to regularly be recruited clutch they move toward a nesting site.
some hatchlings into the population.
emerging in September. These are often sites that are familiar to
Unfortunately, adults are frequently hit the females, having nested there year-
as they cross roads; and raccoons and after-year.
other predators cause high rates of nest
predation that skew populations toward Nest sites are often on a hilltop or south-
older turtles and leave them vulnerable facing slope in well-drained (sandy) or
to dying out. disturbed soil, such as a gopher mound
or a tilled cropfield.
As with most reptiles, the Blanding’s
Turtle’s activity is closely tied to weather The female will test the soil with her
conditions, and this is especially true for snout, possibly judging the moisture
da Brown, DNR
photo by Laurin nesting activity. content or temperature. Her hind feet
The Blanding’s Turtle (Emydoidea excavate a burrow for the eggs; often
blandingii) is a “threatened” species in In a typical year adult turtles become 15 to 20 are laid in a chamber roughly
Minnesota. The loss and fragmentation active in April, with males moving among 6 inches deep. This process can take
of wetland and upland habitat is a major wetland complexes and traveling stream over 2 hours and is often initiated late
factor behind their status. channels to locate females and breed. at night. The female covers the eggs
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with soil, and then travels to a nearby Serenditpity is one of
wetland or stream to feed on tadpoles
and crayfish to regain her strength. She
my favorite words.
will not return to check on the status of
If you don’t already know, it means
her eggs.
making desirable discoveries by This Blanding’s
greeted Ann at
her front door.
Incubation of the eggs relies on the accident...I also call it just luck.
intensity of the sun; hatching is delayed asking us to watch for them and stop for
in cool cloudy summers. Typically hatch- Yet it is serendipitous that I met Ann,
them when driving near wetland areas.
lings emerge in mid August, often after who photographed these turtles.
a rain event when the ground is easier
About the above photo, Ann said “This
for hatchlings to tunnel through soil. Ann also has enjoyed the serendipidy of
one is living in my pond in my back yard
meeting the Blandling’s Turtle after she
The small, quarter-sized turtles are dif- so I find this pretty cool.”
spotted one in her back yard last year
ficult to spot. They have a small yolk-sac and sent it to the DNR for identification
that nourishes them until they find a site You can view more of Ann’s beautiful
and learned they are threatened.
where they will spend the winter. photography at; www.facebook.com/
NaturePhotographyByAnn. Or Email her
This article provided by Carol Hall The DNR asked for a cross street of
at AKittelsen@gmail.com
Amphibian and Reptile Specialist with the nearest intersection to where it was
MN DNR. You can learn more about the found, so they could note the spotting of
Blanding’s Turtle in Minnesota on the DNR I’m a big fan of Ann and her turtle friends
the turtle for their records. And they are ----Laure, S&G
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about as beauty shop getting ready for our date
long but stare at the walls ancient and tonight to go dancing.”
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widowed, who I presumed moved in with at the racquet club. I’m playing in the
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There is a crazy old lady elaborate dog beds that coordinate with Obviously, he’s a smarty pants! Which,
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on a large pink tricycle, you can just honestly ask
with her dog in a crate Good Lord, I am dangerously close to “What’s up with the gnome
tied to the back. the edge, aren’t I? I think I’ll return the next to your shed?”
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about her… I mean, was she just a “I don’t like gnomes. They scare me.
normal dog enthusiast like me who one And the darn thing keeps looking at me.”
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10 www.SeasonsAndGenerations.com •(612) 804-3160 • Minneapolis, MN‘Bacon’ has been Roger’s nickname since elementary school. He learned to cook and bake
at an early age from his mom, Eleanor who made the best pies in Morrison County.
COOKING WITH ‘BAC ON’
••
This month I will be hitting another milestone (birthday). As a youth I was fortunate to have a
mother who liked baking and every year for my birthday she would bake a Red Waldorf Cake for my
Roger aka ‘B
acon’ enjoyment. Since my mother’s passing my sister has filled in and has agreed to share the recipe.
---Bacon
So I guess this is where I step in.
e
ed Velvet Cak
Waldorf Cake or commonally re-
aR
Waldorf Astori ferred to as Red Velvet is the cake
all 5 of my brothers had mom bake
r Cake for them on their birthday’s.
Ingredients fo
ored Crisco )
®
e Butter Flav As a kid you couldn’t get me to eat
1/2 cup shortening (I us
r the deep dark blood red colored
1 1/2 cup suga r Frosting cake. I always had mom make me
Ingredients fo
2 eggs an Angel Food with seven-minute
od coloring
2 ounces red fo 3 Tbls. flour sticky frosting.
eaping)
2 Tbls. cocoa (h 1 cup milk
1 cup buttermilk e will work too) 1 cup sugar Now, as an adult, Waldorf is by far
flour (all purpos one of my favorites to make and to
2 1/4 cups cake 1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup butter eat. I feel honored to bake it for my
1 tsp. salt )
1 tsp. vanilla (no substitutions “older” brother. Maybe it’s because
da the memories of mom and childhood
1 tsp. baking so birthdays. ---- Karen
gar
1 tsp. white vine (Bacon’s baby sister)
This recipe has an interesting story
behind it - which mom used to tell to me
every time she dug out that old newspaper
clipping. Here’s mom’s version.
Directions for Cake:
A Polish immigrant baker developed the Cream shortening, sugar
and eggs.
recipe for the famous Waldorf Astoria Make a paste of food col
oring and the cocoa. Ad
Hotel in New York City. The cake was Add buttermilk alternating d to creamed mixture.
with the flour and salt.
one of their prized desserts and well Add vanilla.
guarded. Many tried to obtain it, but Add soda to vinegar (it wil
l foam), and blend in to cak
everyone there was sworn to secrecy Pour in to 3 greased and e batter.
floured 8” round cake pa
regarding the list of ingredients and di- Bake at 350º for 24 to 30 ns.
minutes or until tooth pic
rections. Wanting a claim to fame, one Cool for 15 minutes then k comes out clean.
run a knife around the pa
of the staff stole the recipe and sold it to Directions for Frosting n to loosen.
the New York Times. They published it, :
Add milk to flour slowly,
the rest is tasty history. To date there are avoiding lumps.
Cook flour and milk until
many urban myths out there on how this very thick, stirring to avo
***Cool completely*** id scorching.
recipe came to be, I’ll stick with mom’s. Cream sugar, butter and
This recipe comes direct vanilla until fluffy. Add to
Beat on high until it looks the cooled, cooked mixtur
like whipped cream with e.
from the old newspaper Frost the tops of each cak stiff peaks.
clipping my mom used e, layer and frost all the
(Use toothpicks to hold the way around.
to make this decadent, layers in place).
rich, dark, red cake.
Happy Birthday, big brother ----Karen
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I don’t know if you are pity and disbelief that, if it were spoken, Even so, she soon
would sound like, “What a moron.”
aware of it, but I am the caught on and
guy who invented It turns out that Slug-Bug has been was beating me senseless.
Kiss-Jeep. around since the Garden of Eden and
is played with Volkswagen Beetles and Now, since my eyes are automatically
There are some parts of punching, rather than Wranglers and drawn to any Wrangler on the road, I’m
the country where kisses. spotting them left and right and having
Kiss-Jeep hasn’t caught the time of my life! But the cool thing
This is an about Kiss-Jeep is, even when you lose,
on yet, so let me explain. incredible you win. Cool, huh?
concept to me
Let’s say you’re driving down the road Which gets me to my point, and that is:
that there is actually
with your loved one(s). The first one If you don’t like the game, either change
a circumstance where it’s not only okay
in the car that spots a Jeep Wrangler the rules or play a different game.
to hit someone, but it’s considered a
(Jeep Cherokees don’t count), yells
good thing.
“Kiss-Jeep!” and receives a kiss from I wonder if that might be what it means
the other party. in Romans 12:22 when it says: “Do not
Amazing! I could’ve been conform any longer to the pattern of
assaulting people all my this world, but be transformed by the
life and getting away with renewing of your mind. Then you will be
able to test and approve what God’s will
it, had I just known. is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
I wonder now if there are other crimes
Every day we’re bombarded with
(Note to guys: This game should not be one may commit and get away with if
ideologies and standards that we didn’t
played when it’s just you and your male one knows the right thing to say. You
choose. We’re told that sex outside of
friends in the car. Once you go down see a nice car, yell, “Steal Mercedes!”
marriage is normal, substance abuse is
that road, then the next thing you know, hop in and drive off. What a world!
a right, that right and wrong are relative,
you’re all crying, sharing your feelings, and that faith is archaic.
and shopping together. You don’t want So I hear about this Slug-Bug thing, go
to open that door.) home, tell my wife, and before you can
But here’s an idea for you: What if,
say “black and blue,” we’re driving down
instead of playing this game, we looked
Why Wranglers? I like ’em. I might the road knocking the fool out of each
at our lives and measured our thoughts
want one some day. Some have ad- other.
and attitudes, not by what the media or
vanced the theory that this is a symptom even our friends say, but rather by what
of a rapidly approaching mid-life crisis. After a while, I realize that she’s much
God says?
Be that as it may, that’s the vehicle you better at this than I am because, while
use for the game, and that’s that. I’m driving and looking at the road,
In the meantime, you can keep playing
traffic signals, speedometer, etc., the
Slug-Bug if you want. Me? I’m keeping
Now I realize that this whole thing only activity she’s engaged in is spotting
both hands on the wheel and my eyes
sounds a bit mushy and, well, stupid, but Volkswagens and hitting me. She’s a
on the road for the occasional Wrangler
I had to invent this game as a defense very competitive woman.
here and there.
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Seeing I’m getting
I just heard of Slug-Bug about six
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I’m talking to you, Molly is wiped down with special towels
the reader. Not the dog. in between patients to prevent any cross
contamination, etc.
And I’m talking specifically I got her as a puppy as I had always
about going to the dentist. wanted to do therapy dog work. It was
Which one of my greatest decided that she was the one for the job.
personal fears.
Molly is a 5 year old Chocolate Cocker
I recently learned of a therapy dog, Spaniel rescue dog.
Molly, who works at Applewood Family
Dental in Woodbury, as does her owner
Mary Reck. We talked. Here’s her story. She also does therapy work at a wom-
---Laure, S&G ans shelter in St. Paul where she inter-
acts with the kids of battered homes. “I told my dentist my teeth are
going yellow. he told me to
“Molly is available on request to help We attended 4 Obedience classes at All wear a brown tie.”
people with their anxieties about having Breed Obedience school in Woodbury ---Rodney Dangerfield
dental procedures. and then a Therapy Dog class. We also
were trained in a bonding class and then
She will sit on patient’s laps during “Faced with the choice of
she took her Therapy Dog Test.
dental treatment and they can pet her, or enduring a bad toothache
just hold her. It’s a win-win situation for or going to the dentist, we
both patient and dog. She passed and is certified with Pet
generally tried to ride out the
Partners Therapy Dog and she has also
taken and passed her Canine Good bad tooth.”
Molly takes patient’s mind ---Joseph Barbera
Citizens certification.
off what is going on in
their mouths, and helps Molly loves her job and loves to go to “I was never afraid of
reduce anxiety. work with me. She is so happy to greet anything in the world
and help people. except the dentist.”
Working part time, Molly is in the office
---Taylor Caldwell
a couple of days a week, depending on
I have had dogs all my life. About five
when she is needed. When she is there,
years ago we had Chesapeake’s and “Some tortures are physical,
she lovingly greets everyone - resulting
then decided we should get something some are mental. But the
in lots of smiles from young and old.
smaller so they could travel with us.
one that is both is dental.”
If someone ---Ogden Nash
has an allergy That didn’t work very well, because now
to dogs or we are into dog rescue and usually have
would just a couple of foster dogs with us as well. Bad tooth,
prefer not to But a
have her there “I grew up in a home good dog
(I totally under- full of animals and to help!
stand) she is
the love of animals has
put in her crate
and takes a always been there.”
break.
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www.SeasonsAndGenerations.com •(612) 804-3160 • Minneapolis, MN 15WHERE DID SUMMER GO?
From the moment we get that first taste We had 2 pair of shoes, The fact is - that boys
of summer; Memorial Day weekend, we
count the days until school is done and
one pair of tennies, must be clothed,
summer begins. and a pair of so off we go to trudge
school/church shoes. around the mall.
If we are lucky Memorial Day weekend
is nice enough to open the windows, put I direct him into stores in which there is
on shorts, grill out and maybe do some a sale or I have a coupon. I grab piles
yard work. of clothes and lead him to the dressing
room where he proceeds to try things on
It’s a sneaky teaser that at the speed of a snail with me continu-
These were worn all year- barring any ously prompting him to come out so I
compels us to make lists can actually view the clothing.
major growth spurts mid year. As soon
and daydream of all as it was summer and school was out
the things we would like we were barefoot or had some sort of To others around me this must appear to
flip-flops or if we were really lucky a pair be some sort of hostage situation. Then
to accomplish I glance into the face of another mother
of hand-me-down sandals. That was
over the summer. a real score. So as Labor Day rolled accompanying her own male offspring
All those empty days around it was time to look for shoes. under the age of 21.
stretching out before you
like an endless sea. These days, our family buys shoes We grimace, shrug our
all the year round if anyone says their
shoulders and give each
shoes are getting too small.. First I
Then like a sneaker wave at the beach
check the attic for any hand-me-downs other the look. We are now
(that you still didn’t make it to this year),
it’s here…….Back to School!
that I may have stashed in there. kindred spirits.
Now granted the stores start putting My husband loves to hear So as September dawns with cooler
evenings and crisper mornings, I will be
up signs and bins full of crayons and I’ve been shopping checking the sales, collecting my cou-
loose leaf notebook paper in July, but if
you don’t get going on it right away an
in the attic! pons, searching for the much coveted
15% off your entire purchase for back to
overwhelming anxiety starts to set in
If that is not successful, I send a few school shoppers Nirvana.
brought about by some form of school
supply PTSD from last year that found emails to my friends with the next size
up kids. With school supply lists at the ready, my
you scouring store after store the night
unwilling companions and I head out for
before school started searching for the
As far as I’m concerned, one of the the true sign of Fall, the start of the new
last college ruled spiral notebook in the
worst days as a parent- well lets be school year. All the while in the back
entire metro area, or a specific brand
honest as a mother who usually does of my mind I have a vague thought, an
of eraser, Pink Pearl to be exact that
the majority of the “clothing” of the family unconscious calling that I need to buy
the teachers carefully compiled supply
is when the kids move into adult shoe shoes.
list requests. Does it really have to be
Pink Pearl? Isn’t an eraser an eraser? I sizes! You can pretty much double your
guess that’s another topic for discussion budget right then and there! Bridget is a Critical Care RN. She has a
at a later time. husband of 22 years,
Two of my kids wear uniforms so not 3 kids, 3 goldfish, a
When I was a kid, a lot of clothes shopping is required cat and a dog.
for them. The one who does not wear If you are enjoying
‘Back to School’ a uniform however feels shopping is a Bridget’s monthly
not only meant fate worse than death phase of his male submissions you can
development where he is still shopping
school supplies, with his mom. Enter moaning, loud sighs
follow the daily antics Bridget
on her new blog,
but new shoes! and eye rolling here. www.cr8tivemom.blogspot.com
16 www.SeasonsAndGenerations.com •(612) 804-3160 • Minneapolis, MNROUNDING UP A RUNAWAY
As a volunteer at As I left the loading area, I saw the
owner with the dog. Soon the three of us
Joseph’s Coat, taking were standing together, thanking each
clothing that cannot be other for helping find the dog.
used by our customers
The dog, Josie, sat in the car, woofing at
to Goodwill is one of my us for curtailing her brief freedom.
favorite things to do.
The dog also was a Viking’s fan as the
I was about this chore recently, waiting bandana around her neck was proof.
in line to unload the car when a Black
Labrador come bounding out of the I think that each of us left feeling a little
unloading dock and headed for places better knowing that we had saved a Hey, Vikings. we’ll be watching every
unknown. canine Viking’s fan. game, as will the dog, because he
I tracked the dog for a bit, but it was too has no say in the matter.
fast for me to get a hold of her
Winston is
Just a second later the owner, in panic, now retired But, please don’t go breaking our
came out the same entrance, search- and lives in
ing for the dog. I was able to tell the Mounds View. hearts again. Have a great season.
owner which way I thought the dog was With several
headed. published
articles Winn --- Laure, S&G
Just then a different lady parked her car to his credit
and came out with a leash asking about he continues to write
the owner. and share his humor and insites.
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Weather your growing pounds of tomatoes per person, per Florida is the number one producer of
year. (More than half of are ketchup and fresh market tomatoes (except in 2008).
tomatoes in your tomato sauce.)
own garden, Tomatoes are thought to originate in
which 93% of gardening The tomato is America’s fourth most Peru. The name comes from the Aztec
popular fresh-market vegetable behind “xitomatl,” which means “plump thing
households do, potatoes, lettuce, and onions. with a navel”.
or your getting some
handed over the fence Americans have increased their tomato When the tomato was introduced to
consumption 30% over the last 20 years Europe in the 1500s, The French called
from your neighbors, (mostly in processed forms such as it “the apple of love.” The Germans
here are some fun facts sauce, paste, and salsa). called it “the apple of paradise.”
about this tastey fruit.
While tomatoes are The scientific term for the common
healthy to eat, their tomato is lycopersicon lycopersicum,
leaves are actually toxic! which mean “wolf peach.”
As of 2007, Americans spend more on The U.S. Department of Agriculture says
salsa than tomato ketchup. there are 25,000 tomato varieties. Other
sources cap the number of types of
The largest worldwide producer of toma- tomatoes at 10,000. (Either way, that’s
toes is China, followed by USA. still a lot.)
According to the U.S. Department of California produces 96% of the toma- The tomato is a cousin
Agriculture, Americans eat around 24 toes processed in the U.S. of the eggplant, red
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